2011 MDP Summit

Emory MDP Director, David Nugent, Associate Director, Carla Roncoli, and MDP student Atieno Mboya Samandari attended the 2011 MDP Summit, which was held at the beautiful campus of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica on February 22-25, 2011. The Summit was attended by over 60 participants, from 23 universities and 19 countries represented. Participants included representatives of the MDP International Secretariat, of the McArthur Foundation, and of all the 23 MDP programs around the world. During the opening ceremony, the Earth Institute Director, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, addressed the participants by videocam from the United Nations headquarters. The Summit is a yearly event which brings together the global MDP network to compare experiences, facilitate collaborative linkages, develop programmatic strategies, and reinforce the shared vision of a rigorous and practical education for sustainable development.